dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs
Hello everyone,
I would like to propose the following Release Goals for squeeze:
* Dash as default /bin/sh
A lot of work was done on this RG already for lenny but, sadly, it didn't make
it. Further improvements to checkbashisms as well as support for checking for
bashisms in all /bin/sh and debian/rules in lintian should follow.
The previous advocate was Petter Reinholdtsen, this time I'm offering myself
to drive this RG and make it real.
* Bashisms-free archive
Similar to the above and thus included in this same email, the propposed goal
is free all /bin/sh from bashisms (bashism in this context: a shell feature
that is not required to be supported by Debian Policy), not just the issues
needed to support dash as /bin/sh. The pourpose of this goal is to let people
use whatever shell interpreter that complies with policy as /bin/sh without
any breakage other than those that result from bugs in the interpreter
itself.
[-release BCCed as requested]
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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